To be nourished from beautiful and interesting ideas, people, places and things.
To learn from everywhere.
To take time to reflect.
To be daring.
To have adventures.
—Rippy Dusseldorp
photo by Elise Lauterbach
Some have written that unschooling made their family life better. In every case I've seen, making a family's life better is exactly what makes unschooling work well. So which comes first? Neither grew wholly in the absence of the other. |
One of the most important things to remember is that we have choices. It's the choices we make, consciously or unconsciously, that take us into the future. —Karen James |
"I want my kids to feel empowered, so I empower them." —Jenny Cyphers |
"I think to do unschooling well, it is a fundamental element to have an examined life. To be mindful of our choices and understand our thought processes." —Rippy Dusseldorp |
If you can think of what might mar a day like that, picture it as something to avoid. People can't be happy all the time every day, but the more you can allow happiness to flow, the more happiness you will see, and the more happy memories your children can have.
One of my main principles has been that it's my job to protect the peace of each of my children in his or her own home insofar as I can. I'm not just here to protect them from outsiders, axe-murderers and boogie-men of whatever real or imagined sort, but from each other as well. |
What happens when you see other people differently is that you cannot help but see yourself differently. When you choose to find opportunities to give other people choices, you yourself have begun to make more choices. |